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There isn't any ageism in Silicon Valley. Younger people are just more willing and capable of filling the required roles. Besides, there are plenty of older peo
by empressplay 12y ago
There isn't any ageism in Silicon Valley. Younger people are just more willing and capable of filling the required roles. Besides, there are plenty of older people in SV. I see them all the time! This article is just yet another slander to find controversy when there is none.
If you're older and you're not doing well in SV you should take a look at yourself. Maybe you just don't have good ideas anymore. Maybe you just don't cut it, and should find a place somewhere else. There are plenty of other careers you could switch to that happily accept older people.
But there is no ageism in Silicon Valley. Anyone who says there is is just trying to start trouble.
(Paraphrasing arguments made against the suggestion of sexism in SV on HN yesterday. Hurts when you're on the receiving end, no?)
- empressplay 12y agoDown-modding this into oblivion just proves my point =)
- venantius 12y agoFrom https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: "Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."
- dannyr 12y agoPeople probably just didn't notice that you're being sarcastic.
- empressplay 12y agoYes I was. Lamenting bias when it's applied negatively to you is all well and good but when you're happy to ignore it when it's applied to someone else is self-centred. If there are biases in SV that need to be dealt with so that _everyone_ succeeds or fails purely based on _merit_ they all need to be dealt with, not just "whatever affects me".